On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Louis Gorenfeld <louis.gorenfeld@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
devices don't perform as well on the 3.x series kernels compared to my old trusty 2.6.33,
I used to be of the same opinion. Currently running a 3.6.11-rt kernel, and getting very low latencies from it, on a modest 5 year old laptop.
We're talking 0.666 ms, while compiling a kernel, 0 xruns.
Yeah, but you're a ninja :)
I've been wanting to upgrade my kernel, but I'm a bit skeered of doing so right now. I started working on my current project (PdCUDA) a few years ago and am a few driver and kernel versions behind. I couldn't get rt kernels to work with the nvidia proprietary driver (which is necessary for me). Now, I understand that's been resolved in recent versions, but I'm leery of making any big jumps in the kernel tree. Sounds dumb... but I'll just wait for debian wheezy, which I presume will be a stable platform for the next 2 years and update my system and try to tune for rt then.
Notes:
-logged in as root (yes yes, i know)
-rtirq running on startup to fix interrupts
-wifi is a killer, turn it off (Thanks to Jeremy's LAC workshop on RT-ing a system, I didn't know about it till then)
-cpu-scaling can cause xruns, cpupower frequency-set -g performance to run all cores at 100% all the time.
-i kicked out bluetooth to be sure
-as few daemons as possible
-there is no proprietary driver for the Ati HD2400XT integrated for the 3.x series kernel. Hence "normal" graphics, no 3d acceleration
Details:
Acer travelmate laptop: Intel Core2Duo 2.0 Ghz
Arch linux based system: Linux audio 3.6.11-rt25-1-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Tue Dec 25 00:18:17 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Soundcards: RME Multiface II, running trough PCMCIA adapter. Also have an Echo Indigo DJ card, PCMCIA too.
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